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Hm, my attempt to embed this came through as a link. Well, if you feel inclined to click the link, you'll see photos and everything!
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For the duration of the episode, I was no longer aware that I had stood up for an eleven-hour workday.
The actors had so much fun, especially Reid. But all of them.
The writers had so much fun with Lestat's voice c. 2025. He's perfectly too much.
The set dressers had so much fun. ( Setting spoilers )
I look forward to ( Character appearance spoilers )Current Mood: whee Current Music: You're allegro, I'm andante
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Prompt: #497: Unruly
Title: What a Waste of Army Dreamers
Fandom: SIGNALIS
Characters: Elster & Ariane Yeung
Pairings: Elster/Ariane Yeung.
Rating: T
Notes: Still remembering this beautiful game...
Disclaimer: I do not own SIGNALIS, nor am I or will I ever profit from this work.
( AMONGST FIVE PILLARS SPLASHED WITH SCARLET AND THE TWILIGHT SURROUNDING WITH MERLOT MIST, THE BRIGHT, FRESH LILIES TRULY DO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT.... )
Current Mood:  hot
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Archery went pretty well despite having to end early because of potential thunderstorms.
I had fun virtually attending VidUKon, despite my internet connection being a bit uncooperative (I'm planning to catch up on some of the vidshows I missed because of timezone stuff later this week). I particularly enjoyed the What Hands Were Made For femslash vidshow (also, I was delighted to be described as 'like the patron saint of the vidshow' since I tend to make a bunch of femslash fanvids with a focus on hands).
Now that Cage of Shadows has finished airing for subscribers, I'm in the early stages of brainstorming vidsongs for it.
I'm now caught up on making subtitles for the vids I've finished this year so far! (I'm planning to eventually make more for my pre-2021 fanvids)
I haven't managed to get a photo of either, but I saw hummingbirds this weekend and a fawn this afternoon.
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I woke up around six and had breakfast in the hotel, then walked to the monorail station around seven and got to the park at 7:20 to line up. As with previous DisneySea trips, I made sure to get in the far right line so that Carla could easily find me when she joined me later.
( So many pictures, but not quite enough to break into two posts! )
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Baby Miss L is now in her pirate era, so I found some toddler-appropriate books about pirates, plus Commotion in the Ocean and sent them to her. Today I got a video of her reading Commotion in the Ocean - she knows all her sea animals very well! - and also a thumbs up from her mom, who uses it with her students(? she is a speech pathologist who works with preschool kids at a school, so I'm not sure if they are her students or clients) too.
I'm not the most superstitious sports fan out there, but I'm a little stitious and so I would not be surprised if the vibes turn rancid at MSG tonight due to the fucking cheeto attending the game. Fucking James Dolan can go fuck. *deep breath* Still, LGK!!!
In work news, my boss informed me that they would purchase home printer/scanner for me if I had one I liked and it was under $500, so does anyone have any recommendations? I would prefer that it be small, as I don't have a lot of room, but could keep it half under my desk if I shift around the air purifier. I'd need a shelf for it, too probably, so it's not just sitting on my 1939 parquet floor.
*Current Music: The Riversitter - Vienna Teng Current Mood:  thoughtful
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Theme Prompt: #301 - Lost in the woods
Title: Alone
Fandom: X-Men
Rating/Warnings: T
Bonus: No
Word Count: 863
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Jun. 8th, 2026 @ 06:24 pm
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Some good news, for a change: I made it to the rheumatologist and he, in addition to referring me to some extra tests, immediately gave me something for my knee which should work within "hours to days", according to him.
It might be the defeated exhaustion speaking, but I feel like it's already a little bit better.
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- They are constructing a new fire station across the street. The empty houses they demolished to make space were a hazard and an eyesore, so it was lovely to see them gone! On the other hand, they cleared most of the trees on those lots, and we didn't really realize in advance that once they did that the entire north face of our house would be exposed to view down the highway all the way across the roundabout, even though our house is a block away from the highway. The view from all the windows on this side of our house is now full of neon signs, which makes it extremely ugly. I suppose the absence of the empty houses, which were ruining the view in a different way, is probably still worth it, though. And we're enjoying following the progress of the project. The site has been leveled and excavated and filled with gravel and groundcloths and now they're pile-driving.
- The first episode of the new season of Interview with the Vampire, which has now had its name changed to The Vampire Lestat to reflect which books they are adapting, is out! We watched it yesterday. People were saying that it had 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I think is deserved, but still surprising. It was a very good first episode, and a very fun time.
- Wax's brothers are planning to help us build a catio for Wax's birthday, and she wants to put it on the balcony, which currently doesn't exist. You might remember that we were in the midst of removing the rotten boards from the steel frame of our balcony nearly two years ago when Snookums died and we had to part with Anubis. Last summer we did not do any work on the balcony, so it is still just the steel frame waiting to be rustproofed. I suppose it's good if this spurs us to finally attaching the new decking to the balcony. On the other hand...
The original wooden front door to the house has been getting worse and worse and now it's so bad that the screws holding the handle fell off because the wood is rotted. Bits (nails from the outside face, splinters of wood around the improperly installed locks from the previous owner) are falling off it.
This is not a weatherproofing or security emergency, because the proper door is between the cold porch and the house - modern, insulated, with a lock. This outer door just needs to open and close and looks cute. But on the other hand, we do want to keep the rain out of the cold porch.
We're gonna have to do something about this door, but we don't really have the skills or the collection of power tools, or enough money to splurge on having it refurbished by professionals. (A couple of years ago before it was this bad, Wax's brother and SIL were here with her mom and stepdad and her stepdad - that is, Wax's brother's wife's stepdad - was like "You should let me fix your door! It really needs it! I know just what to do!!" and we were like "No, haha, it's fine!" because we don't really know him all that well etc. OTOH we translated his doctoral thesis for him and he was able to get several papers out of it, which I also helped him translate (for money though, but he was grateful); maybe that's enough. We should've said yes, because it got WAY WORSE after that. The door presumably needs to have multiple dutchmen, as well as needing to be thoroughly stripped and the outer layer of wooden paneling probably replaced at minimum (totally possible that more pieces of it - like the outer vertical frame piece - will need replaced as well). Even when I was thinking that it could be our main project over Wax's summer vacation this year I was not sanguine about our ability to fix all these things on the door, but if we are actually spending that time on the balcony...? And yet we have to be able to open and close this door... if only by removing the lockbox so it no longer latches. Replacing this door would probably be even harder than fixing it, though, because in 1950 when our house was built they weren't standard sizes, and the house is stucco, which would make any change in the doorframe non-trivial.
- I've been struggling for weeks to get together the energy and executive function to bake cookies. I haven't baked cookies for... maybe a year? I keep getting tripped up by the need to take butter out to soften several hours before you start. And today I FINALLY did it! I haven't decided what kind of cookies to make yet though.
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Theme Prompt: #301 - Lost in the woods
Title: Two head are better than one
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack thought he’d have help, but he’s managed to strike up an argument instead.
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Naomi Novik: The Summer War: very charming novella, delivering on a variety of good-for-me-tropes. Dysfunctional siblings argueing, then working together and realising they care? Check! Neat twists on fairy tale motifs while still delivering a fairy tale? Check! Father who has his own story and is neither excused for his actions nor reduced to a one dimensional cliché? Check! It's not the easiest time for me right now for Darth Real Life reasons, and that's leaving aside the general mess the world is in, so I really enjoy delving into well written fiction where most of the characters aren't irresponsible toddler-like megalomaniacs and the plot makes sense.
Daredevil Born Again: Season 2 : Speaking of plots which work: s2 didn't have the problem of essentially being two shows grafted together, and so not only did they have a well executed overall seasonal arc, but the "new" characters were fleshed out, so didn't feel paper thin compared to the "old" ones. Back when I wrote about s1 I mentioned that all these "supervillain elected to high office despite electorate knowing about their past" plots - which comics came up with decades ago, both in DC with Lex Luthor and in Marvel with Kingpin - never felt as believable as now, it's more that "eventually, enough people see through these guys to rise against them" feels unduly optimistic. But within the show, I bought it. And really appreciated the episode where ( spoilery stuff happens )The thematic importance of this also came to bear in the season's last two episodes where ( spoilery stuff occurs ) Oh, and of course it was good to see (albeit only a few times in the last three eps or so - Jessica Jones again!Current Mood:  contemplative Current Location: Bamberg
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2026/081: Gliff — Ali Smith
Every classic old horse story I’ve ever chanced upon in this brave new unlibraried world deals with the bloodiness of humanity to other creatures as well as each other and more often than not ends in dutiful sadness as if the story, not totally broken, is at least broken in. [loc. 992] Rose and Bri come home from a visit to their mother (who's taken on her sister's job). Their mother's boyfriend, Leif, is driving the campervan, but he abandons them after they find a red line painted around the outside of their house -- and later, of their campervan. He leaves them with enough canned food to last them a while... ( Read more... )Current Mood:  cold
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I was answering a comment over on AO3 on my old Stargate fic Old Soldiers Die Hard, the one with Annie the candystriper viewpoint OC, and got to thinking about the elapsed time since I posted it in 2006. She was probably meant to be in her late teens in the story, something like 17 or 18, which means that if she aged in realtime, she'd be in her late 30s now.
I was thinking about this in particular because it was always one of my most popular fics in that fandom, and people often asked for a sequel to that story about Annie grown up (and still do now and then). I don't mind being asked, although it is definitely not happening because I've long since moved on, but it's a bit wild to consider the passage of time in that particular way.
(Annie is grown up and doing fine, btw.)
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While I wait for a household appliance cycle to finish (and mostly without links because my hands hurt)---
In its simplest, commonest form, raglan construction for knitted garments creates a welt from the left and right edges of the neck to the armpit, in a diagonal line. (It's by increases when knitting top down, decreases when knitting hem up. See it mapped out in color by putting "ringer raglan tee" into your favorite web-image search tool.) When designers try improving a raglan's 45-deg line for a better fit, a common adjustment is to raise the back part of the neckline or lower the front part.
Some "compound raglan" or "assymetric raglan" patterns are intended to aid round- and narrow-shouldered individuals, and some are intended to aid wide-shouldered individuals. The two groups of patterns do different things with the welted line yet share the same descriptive labels (sigh).
If you're ISO patterns with shaped raglans friendly to a wearer with a short armscye (armhole drop), try reading the respective patterns and blogs of Aimee Sher and Ailbíona McLochlainn, and the patterns of Jennifer Wood.
If I'd found a designer that handles the opposite case well, I wouldn't be plodding slowly through a dissection of Yorlin, though I think Rililie's work as written would aid wearers with proportions less extreme than mine, as would Åsa Tricosa's for knitters willing to try her (non-raglan) construction method. I've modified several patterns from both designers, which didn't result in a great fit but was close enough to wear to a casual workplace.
Lastly, Susanna Winter has a good general explainer.
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